I just run a speed test on my UniFi System on ABB FTTP. From 108 at 5:26am this morning to 545 this afternoon.

Just like many Tyre Recyclers, they made money by storing the waste “until an effect way of processing is developed”.

The current way of effectively recycling vulcanised tyres is shipping to a 3rd-World country with no environmental or OH&S where they are processed in a few different ways.

There were quite a few fly-by-night tyre recyclers who would rent a factory, fill it with tyres and then do a runner; pocketing the disposal fees. Then the Landlord would have a warehouse full of used tyres that they couldn’t do anything about.

We grew up in a 3 bedroom house. When we were becoming teenagers. Dad built an extension which expanded one of the bedrooms to provide enough room for two growing boys and enlarged the kitchen, added a family room and extended the lounge room into a lounge and dining room.

We had one of two dinners parties in the new Dining room, but it became the defacto study as we entered High School.

In order to free up the dining table again, the second extension featured a 4th bedroom (which opened onto a private deck), dedicated study and expanded laundry.

All these extensions were a complete waste of money because my brother moved out shortly after we completed it and my younger sister moved out to live with our uncle and aunty after a heated argument with Dad over the Liberties of Man (and teenage girls).

I believe that the house is now owned by some “New Australians” (and my dad would have called them) and has two families living together.

Back in the 1970s and 1990s, there has been a large Street-Race culture.

There has since been a huge crack-down on this and a lot of the people who would have formerly driven like idiots in suburban streets, and then in empty housing estates and industrial parks have traded in their Commodores and Falcons for Patrols and Landcruisers. Now they tear up State Parks.

Meanwhile, there are a larger proportion of the community who just want to visit The Great Outdoors; some of them want to perform outdoor activity’s; hiking, kayaking, recreational fishing, etc. and they need an off road vehicle to get to the beginning of their adventure. Others just want to experience the ambiance of camping away from other people and they need an off-road vehicle to get there. Some people want to travel to a location just for the sake of travelling.

A soft-reader SUV is not suitable for a lot of these activities. Carrying a tinny, Roof-top-tent, kayak or mountain bike on the roof of a RAV4 or Honda CRV may be physically possible, but it probably is not be a good idea.

You are 100% right about Dirt Bikes though.

Botulinum Toxin overdose.

That sounds like you can be replaced with a LLM. Let’s do that and save the company millions of dollars a year while us Plebeians got on with doing the real work and making money.

Glorified Lorem Ipsum.

90% of non-functional code, maybe.

He probably is but Plastic Surgery Technology can only do so much.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/182429-if-a-person-has-ugly-thoughts-it-begins-to-show

No Development Zones wpuld definitely be a good thing, but no access to anyone zones wouldn’t be.

The Australian Bush has been maintained and curated for at least 40,000 (probably closer to 80,000) years and closing off access to anyone is not the answer.

If you visit State and National Parks that restrict public access (such as Bunyip State which only allows Cyclists and Horseriders) you may notice that a lot of the tracks are overgrown (to a point where Cyclists and Horseriders can’t use them).

Meanwhile, other Parks that do allow 4WDing have been chewed up to a point where they are inaccessible to anything but a Unimog.

She is as morally corrupt as her father was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell

FYI. “The World Is Not Enough”’s character Elliot Carver was allegedly based on Robert Maxwell.

Probably an overdose of Botulinum Toxin.

When we built on the side of a hill, we had a low profile roof on our two story, so as not to spoil anyone else’s view.

Then our neighbours downhill built a single storey with a ridiculously obtuse roof that blocked our view! Mongrels!

I’m reminded of the Crowded House song “Caravan in the Hills”.

Good luck with your new property.

Are there any covenants on the height of the building?

Lovely view.

Can you boat on the water?

I’m rereading the Watch series currently and almost every book hits very close to Current Affairs.

The Fifth Elephant feels like a peaceful interlude after GG (Popularism), MaA (Anti-Woke), FoC (Cultural Oppression of Minorities), Jingo (Nationalism).

I have expanded this read through to include Truth, MR and the Moist series.

Ironically the Truth will also be the least relevant, even though most of our current RoundWorld problems are caused by Media Moguls manipulating things.

It is quite funny that it is also being used by Right-Wing fascists.

It’s like how the US insult “Redneck” originally referred to members of their Teachers Union and now refers to Uneducated selfish “libertarians”.

They deserve to be caricatured as misinformed divisive bigots who should read something other than News Corp.

It is useful for Lorem Ipsum text and that is all.

Honestly, if you are submitting anything using AI generated content, you may as just put Lorem Ipsum text instead. That way you are not wasting ridiculous amounts of electricity and potable water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

This is why there have to be significant taxes on vacant rentals (including short term rentals like AirBNB).

It has to be made more expensive to keep a property vacant than to rent it out and maintain it, without increasing rent.

Rent assistance is just corporate welfare that drives up rent.